Get a taste of five Belgian beers, paired with such dishes as rabbit fricassee with Belgian endive and a beer-cheese vinaigrette, and ale-poached mussels with a potato-leek terrine and toasted brioche, at Be’wiched Deli (800 Washington Av. N., Mpls., www.bewicheddeli.com) at 6:30 p.m. on May 22. Tickets $60, reservations 612-767-4330.

All about coffee

Pick up brewing tips, get a peek inside a roasting facility and sample, sample, sample among nine participating shops during the Twin Cities’ first-annual Caffeine Crawl on June 1. Tickets $30, reservations at www.caffeinecrawl.com.

North Shore news

Fans of Judi Barsness, take note: The owner of the former Chez Jude in Grand Marais, Minn., has returned to her cooking alma mater, Bluefin Bay Resort (www.bluefinbay.com) in nearby Tofte. Barsness is working as a consultant at the resort’s new Waves of Superior Cafe, creating breakfast and lunch menus that emphasize local, seasonal ingredients, along with the afternoon tea service that was such a delight at Chez Jude. The restaurant is making its debut on Memorial Day weekend.

Open-air cooking

That construction crew working outside Butcher & the Boar (1121 Hennepin Av. S., Mpls., www.butcherandtheboar.com)? They’re building an outdoor kitchen — with a targeted late-June opening date — where chefs Jack Riebel and Peter Botcher are going to be serving four kinds of sausage, a jalapeño-Cheddar summer sausage, sandwiches, fries and other casual fare (“There won’t be a burger, that much I can tell you,” said Riebel with a laugh. “We’re anti-burger.”).

Riebel and Botcher are also working on getting those four sausages into Lunds and Byerly’s stores, and soon.